Thursday, January 21, 2010

7th Grade Plans presently....

For Religion (mostly done as a family)~daily Gospel reading~Church History read aloud~participation in our family liturgical prayer life~some readings from The Orthodox Church and a catechism book~readings of Saint's lives on the days they are commemorated (hope to download some daily readings onto her mp3 player soon)

Math~Finishing Algebra1 then onto Geometry (Jacob's)

Latin and Greek~moseying along here and there in Henle Latin 1 Unit 3~Elementary Greek Book 1 (just beginning here in mid January)

Language Arts (for want of a better name!)~Writing her novel, dictations from Tolkien, narrations from her lit. and history books as well as lives of the Saints, copywork from Paidia Classics, some essays~she is beginning to learn about the different forms of essays~Grammar- incidental and slowly working through The Mother Tongue (mostly covered in Latin though). Some diagramming as well but that got done quickly- we went from lesson 2 to her diagramming the Lady of Shallot!~spelling done with Spelling City~poetry memory

Literature~The Two Towers (45 minutes a day)~The Simmirillion (read aloud)~Macbeth and Julius Ceaser (read aloud)~Many poems and some poetry studies with the Harp and Laurel Wreath~Ivanhoe (mp3)~The Age of Chivalry- The Mabinogean (mp3)~The Sword and the Circle (read aloud)~Jane Eyre (read aloud)~short story study on The Gift of the Magi~A Christmas Carol (Dickens)~Great Expectations (Dickens)

History~A Child's History of England- by Dickens (mp3)~a portion of Story of the World 4 (we left this for the above history instead as we will be reading Churchill's book next year and it will prepare us- we also really enjoy Dickens!)

Science~ Marine Biology ala Lapaz Homelearning- we have followed the first 8 weeks as well as coloring in the Marine Bio. Coloring Book. Now we have paused for a science fair project dealing with salinity and density.

Music and Art~listening to the music from Carmen (Bizet)~she has begun to play the concertina- the lessons are spaced when we have time~study of Jan Vermeer (6 paintings, short bio., and great paintings)

P.E.~ballet many times a week! She is learning alot about time signatures in this!~swimming- passed level 10 and will take her bronze this spring or summer

Home Ec.!~she is still the laundry girl~working at that room organization~cooking dinner once a week (usually homemade soups)~babysitting here and elsewhere~much sewing (Eowyn dress and Jane Austen dresses), knitting, and quilting

This sure makes me feel a lot better in this dreary weather (outside and inside!)